The winning cars at the 2015 Shell Eco-Marathon Asia, held from February 26 to March 1, put hybrid cars' mileage to shame. With Rizal Park as the urban track, this year's super-mileage competition was joined by 127 student teams from Africa, Asia Pacific and Middle East. And from these brilliant engineering groups, two Filipino teams bagged two on-track category wins.

A team from De La Salle University--DLSU Eco Car Team-I.C.E.--won the Urban Concept (gasoline) category, its car achieving a 126.6km/L mileage. Team UP from, um, the University of the Philippines grabbed top honors in the Urban Concept (hydrogen fuel cell) category, with its car submitting 40.5km/kWh.

For some Filipino teams, on the other hand, the technical inspection was more critical than the track competition itself. Of the 127 cars, only 112 made the grade. First-timers DLSU-D Stallions were thrilled when their prototype gasoline car passed the technical inspection.

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"It took us two days to fix the fuel system and the steering, so we are emotional," Jan Ian Karlo Peralba of the DLSU-D Stallions was quoted as saying in Shell's press statement.

This year's Shell Eco-Marathon Asia also saw new fuel-mileage records being set in five categories:

* 153km/L for Urban Concept (diesel) by ITS Team 2 of Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (Indonesia); and

* 164km/L for Urban Concept(alternative fuel; ethanol) by Team LH-Gold Energy of Lac Hong University (Vietnam).

Thailand emerged the overall winner for grabbing three of the 10 on-track awards. Aside from the on-track awards, six off-track awards were also handed out to outstanding teams. One of the recipients was Technological Institute of the Philippines' TIP Mileage Proto team, which received the Shell Helix Tribology special award.

Here is the complete list of the on-track winners at the 2015 Shell Eco-Marathon Asia. Congratulations, guys!